Is there anything more painful than popping out a kid?

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Yes there is an experience more painful than childbirth, and I don't need to be female to state that as fact.

You could give birth while passing a kidney stone with a jellyfish laying on your face.

It is a fact of science that on average women perceive pain at lower levels of stimulus than men, and women have a lower tolerance for pain than men. The reason some women like to go on about the incomparable pain of childbirth is because they are so sensitive to the sensation of pain. Of course you can tell the scientific community to shove it and continue to crow from your soapbox about how tough you are, but please engage the brain for long enough to realise that stating that there is no experience possibly more painful than childbirth is completely ridiculous.

Consider whether it would be enough to simply say that childbirth can be a very painful and unpleasant experience. No...it has to be -the- most painful experience on the planet. As the intensity of pain increases, the human body becomes less able to voluntarily function, and eventually unconsciousness results when the pain reaches that individuals absolute maximum threshold. Approximately 140 million births take place every year successfully. The majority of those take place without the use of drugs and in conditions which would result in the death of the child and the mother if unconsciousness resulted. Estimated deaths during childbirth each year worldwide is estimated at approximately 365 thousand, or .26 percent. Those that are due to a mother passing out from the pain experienced and medical assistance not being adequate is unknown, but for this purpose we may assume all of them. How long could you withstand having your toes burnt off with a blowtorch? How many toes could be removed before you would pass out?

I can't believe I'm even attempting to make clear how ridiculous this claim is. In fact, carry on...you whiners are all superheroes in my book.

Guybrush, I'm with you that there are very likely things that hurt more. However, with every type of pain that might be worse, only a relatively small percentage of people will experience it. But almost half of the world's population has or will give birth. Which, I think, does make it a useful yardstick to measure other types of pain against.

In other words; while I doubt it is the most pain any person has ever felt, it is the most painful thing a woman can expect to endure.

Burst appendix.

So, now anecdotal evidence is fine?

There's one I gave you previously. That's pretty good, though as you say, it's only one.

So then, any females here been pregnant and experienced greater pain than such? I asked the only female around my place, and my mother said that it was equal to an incision from a surgery, albeit the incision pain was only there in certain positions like sitting up (but if the incision pain was there all the time like labor it'd be worst).

Another thing that makes it so unique is that it's a completely different type of pain than anything else you will ever feel. Something huge (it feels huge anyway) is coming out of you and that feels very different than other types of pain. You feel helpless. You also have to do things to increase the pain yourself so that it can be over with because you have to push. Knowing that when you push it's going to hurt worse and pushing anyway is pretty difficult to do.

Different women experience birth differently. I know some women who think that the contractions are the worst part, others who say that pushing is the worst part. I've even met some who didn't think it was really all that painful at all. For me it was the pushing. I could do contractions all day but when I could feel the baby moving down, thats when it got bad.

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I am genuinely surprised nobody mentioned toothaches. I was googling for remedies once and landed on a whole thread of women saying childbirth wasn't as painful

Ha, I missed what mister Threepwood wrote there. That's funny.

Add in a crushed hand too, with the jellyfish and baby. Odd imagery though.

I apologise if my post was weird and aggressive. I started my response with quite a light heart, but by the end all I could think about was the multitude of times I have witnessed or read/heard of groups and individuals retelling the ordeals and hardships they have endured and almost in the same breath demanded special treatment because of it. And I'm not sure if others have had the same experience, but the number of times I have heard women describing their personal journey to hell and back in order to give birth is beyond a joke, and in the same breath they usually add that men wouldn't have any idea of what that level of pain felt like. It makes me mad because I suspect it is a theme with a common motive. If you wish to belittle others and make them feel guilty for the pain you have endured, then why not harp on about it to your children and the men that you made them with? I read about the freedom of choice to not put yourself into a situation where pain will be experienced, ie sticking your head in a furnace or skateboarding while being towed by a vehicle, which would imply that women have no choice in becoming pregnant. Every argument for the statement is ridiculous. Acting as if somebody is detracting from a pain that they themselves could not know due to gender when they are trying to point out that of course that isn't the worst pain in existence is ridiculous. Attempting to be a martyr because you gave birth is ridiculous.

Don't read it as an aggressive post. Instead of allocating Samuel L Jackson to voice my text, try allocating Morgan Freeman. I'm not yelling angrily, I'm talking rationally. Please give mankind a break.

"Is there anything more painful than popping out a kid?"

Putting one back in maybe?